{"id":4261,"date":"2011-03-10T05:59:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2011-03-10T05:59:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T13:59:04","slug":"terror-babies-and-islamist-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/terror-babies-and-islamist-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror Babies and Islamist-Progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Because they have no true arguments to offer, the Republican tactic is to tell lies and spuriously support them with conspiracy theories so wild that they would make a flat-earther blush.&#160; Here\u2019s the latest from Louie Gohmert.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"10Gohmert\" border=\"0\" alt=\"10Gohmert\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/10Gohmert.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"246\" \/>Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) believes that <strong>radical Islamic terrorists and progressives are working together to bring down America out of their shared \u201chatred\u201d for conservatives and Christians, and intend to use \u201cterror babies\u201d as part of their plan<\/strong>. Speaking with a receptive audience of Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association, Gohmert explained his allegation that terrorists are plotting to come into the United States in order to gain citizenship for their children. After Gohmert first <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/06\/gohmert-theres-a-diabolical-30-year-plot-to-have-terrorist-babies-born-in-us-video.php\" target=\"_blank\">floated his conspiracy theory<\/a> on the House floor in June, he was later <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/08\/anderson-cooper-and-louie-gohmert-have-at-it-on-terror-babies-conspiracy-video.php\" target=\"_blank\">unable to produce any evidence<\/a> to substantiate his claim and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/08\/ex-fbi-official-debunks-terror-babies-conspiracy-theory-on-cnn-video.php\" target=\"_blank\">a former FBI official maintained<\/a> that \u201cthere was never a credible report \u2014 or any report, for that matter \u2014 coming across through all the various mechanisms of communication to indicate that there was such a plan for these terror babies to be born\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/gohmert-terror-babies-and-islamist-progressive-axis-are-plotting-destroy-america\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JmYu2miUDac?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don\u2019t know what to say.&#160; How does one respond to something so patently absurd?&#160; Of course Gohmert is lying.&#160; That\u2019s what Republicans do.&#160; Gohmert embodies the bigotry, racism, and hatred that have come to be a key plank in the Republican platform.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they have no true arguments to offer, the Republican tactic is to tell lies and spuriously support them with conspiracy theories so wild that they would make a flat-earther blush.&#160; Here\u2019s the latest from Louie Gohmert. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) believes that radical Islamic terrorists and progressives are working together to bring down America <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/terror-babies-and-islamist-progressives\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}